PTEROPUS LEACHII. 
hair. Thumb armed with a strong claw, the small claw of first finger directly 
in front of the distal end of the first phalanx of second finger. Wing mem- 
branes thin, and posterior to fore-arm veined from before backwards ; towards 
body two of the veins are larger than the rest ; one begins near to axilla, and 
terminates before it reaches the hinder edge of the wing, its course obliquely out- 
wards and backwards ; the other commences a little in front of base of hinder 
leg, and extends outwards and backwards to within about three lines of the 
margin of the wing. The interfemoral membrane edges the coccyx and 
inner side of the hinder extremities as far as the tarsus ; it is deeply emar- 
ginate the emargination of the figure of the letter V reversed. At the tarsus 
it is about half an inch in width, and the latter increases a little as the angle 
it forms with the portion of the opposite side is neared. Tail rather more than 
half an inch in length, the last half free and projecting beyond the inter- 
ernoral membrane. Toes rather strong, all of equal length, and armed with 
DIMENSIONS. 
In. Lines. 
Length from nose to base of tail 5 3 
Length of head 1 9 
antibracliium g 2 
tail 0 8 
Expanse of wings 0 
Distance between thorax and thumb 
when wings are extended 4 q 
In. Lines. 
Length of thumb, including claw 0 9 
1st joint of forefinger 1 51 
1st joint of second finger ... 2 1 
1st joint of third finger 2 0 
1st joint of fourth finger ... 1 11 
Female.— As regards colours, the two sexes are nearly alike. 
During the season when the grapes are ripening and ripe, specimens of this Bat are 
easily obtained in Cape Town and its vicinity ; at other periods they are less readily procured. 
Pnougli it is not restricted to Cape Town and its neighbourhood, it occurs nowhere else in the 
same abundance. One or two specimens have occasionally been procured far in the interior ; 
and I was told when at Latakoo, that a large Bat was often seen about the garden in the 
fruit season, which, from the description given, I am inclined to believe is, if not the common 
Cape species, at least a Pteropus. 
I hough I heard much while at the Cape of the large species [Pteropus Hottentotus, 
lem ‘) 1 never > during m y residence there, was so fortunate as to obtain a specimen. 
